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Author_Patrice Paul Larroque
Beat Unit
Binary Rhythm
Blues Songs
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cultural semiotics
Dotted Eighth Note
Dotted Quarter Note
Eighth Note
Eighth Note Triplet
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Field Hollers
linguistic influence on blues music
Linguistic Rhythm
Metrical Feet
music linguistics
phonological rhythm
prosody analysis
Quarter Note
Quarter Note Triplet
Rhythmic Alternation
Sacred Harp
speech melody
Stress Clash
stress timing
Stressed Syllables
Strong Beats
Sweet Home Chicago
Ternary Rhythm
Tone Group
Tonic Placement
Tonic Syllable
Trochaic Rhythm
Unstressed Syllables
Weak Beats
Product details
- ISBN 9781032037219
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. English is stressed and timed, which means that there is a regular beat to the language, just like there is a beat in a blues song. This regular beat falls on important words in the sentence and unimportant ones do not get stressed. They are “squeezed” between the salient words to keep the rhythm. The apparent contradiction between the fundamentally trochaic rhythm of spoken English and the syncopated ternary rhythm of blues may be resolved as the stressed syllables of the trochee (a stressed-unstressed sequence) is naturally lengthened and assumes the role of one strongly and one weakly stressed syllable in a ternary rhythm. The book suggests investigating the rhythm of English and the rhythm of blues in order to show how the linguistic rhythm of a culture can be reflected in the rhythm of its music.
Patrice Larroque is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation Studies, Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.
